Falkland Islands

• Thursday, September 10th 2009 - 18:46 UTC

  Desire signs ‘letter of intent’ for Falklands drilling campaign

  

  Desire Petroleum plc the exploration company focusing on the North Falkland Basin, has announced that it has exchanged a letter of intent with Diamond Offshore Drilling (UK) Ltd for the drilling unit the Ocean Guardian to undertake a four well minimum drilling campaign in the North Falkland Basin.

• Thursday, September 10th 2009 - 11:47 UTC

  Malvinas Families peregrination to Falklands with no Argentine officials

  

  Foreign Affairs minister Jorge Taiana confirmed officially that no Argentine official will be travelling with the Malvinas Families to the Falkland Islands for the inauguration of the Memorial at the Argentine cemetery in Darwin next October. “No, no one is travelling”, said Taiana when asked by the Argentine press.

• Monday, September 7th 2009 - 14:06 UTC

  Argentine next-of-kin preparing for trip to open Darwin cemetery Memorial

  

  Over 300 relatives from Argentines combatants killed in 1982 during the Falkland Islands conflict are preparing for the trip for the official inauguration of the Memorial at the Argentine cemetery in Darwin, according to Cesar Trejo member of the Malvinas Families Commission.

• Friday, September 4th 2009 - 10:05 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Weekly Penguin News Update

  

  Headlines: Nigel our new man at the Big House; Threat to Airbridge; Next of kin trip.

• Thursday, September 3rd 2009 - 03:21 UTC

  Falklands on route map for 2010 Games in India Queen’s Baton relay

  

  Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II is to launch a baton relay – one of the longest in history – in the presence of Indian President Pratibha Patil to lift the curtain on the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, organizers announced this week.

• Tuesday, September 1st 2009 - 19:37 UTC

  British consul in Basra next Falkland Islands governor

  

  British Consul General in Basra Iraq and biodiversity conservation expert Nigel Haywood will be the next Governor of the Falkland Islands and Commissioner for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

• Tuesday, September 1st 2009 - 13:17 UTC

  Argentina ‘environmentally irresponsible’ say Falklands’ strategy writers

  

  Argentina’s lack of action with regard to over fishing in its own waters and on the high seas was described as “environmentally irresponsible” at the fisheries sector of a public presentation on the Falklands Environmental Development Strategy (EDS) last week.

• Tuesday, September 1st 2009 - 03:21 UTC

  Official Argentina committee to organize Malvinas Families trips to Falklands

  

  The Argentine government announced the creation of a specific committee for the organization of the Malvinas families coming trips to the Falkland Islands for the official inauguration of the Memorial at the Argentine cemetery in Darwin.

• Monday, August 31st 2009 - 09:15 UTC

  Gentoos top the penguin charts as seabirds return in record numbers

  

  Gentoo penguins are returning to the Falklands in record numbers, after their best breeding season in more than ten years. Kings, too, continue to thrive, making this season’s Seabird Monitoring Programme one of the healthiest undertaken. Falklands Conservation officer Pierre Pistorius has produced this special report for the Penguin News…

• Saturday, August 29th 2009 - 04:47 UTC

  Argentine Families would like more time at Falklands’ Darwin cemetery

  

  A delegation from the Argentine Families Commission (AFC) said on Friday in Stanley that detailed plans for two services due to take place at the Falkland Islands Argentine cemetery near Darwin next October are taking shape, however they hope to have more time on the ground than is currently proposed.